and even the washington post agrees with susan saying, it is the democrats who are now the problem. they are not getting serious. >> my side for a minute here. >> you've had plenty of time to talk earlier. >> not on this issue. the problem is the entitlement cuts, and neither side wants to own the entitlement cuts. and so the democrats say, we'll cut entitlements, but you republicans are going to have to say what you want cut. and the republicans know it's unpopular so they want it to be like a virgin birth. >> there's -- one guru who wrote to me, if we hike taxes as much as obama wants next year, or cut spending as much as boehner wants, the economy will relapse recession. issue three. 12/12/12 and the fed. >> 12/12/12. a once-in-a-lifetime triple same digit date and the day the chairman of the federal reserve board, ben bernanke, announced an unprecedented strategy. >> a strategy that we believe will help support household and business confidence and spending. >> for the first time in the federal reserve board's 100- year history, the central bank is directly basing its interest r